A day in the life...

[Mendip]

^ Ok, let me check. Green owed if true!

And mucho apologies for lumping you with the rest of the foot hypocrites.

[Stumpy]

^ Ok, let me check. Green owed if true!

And mucho apologies for lumping you with the rest of the foot hypocrites.

God Loves you Mendy.....

[Stumpy]

Speaking of a day in the life. Geeezzuuus it is still hot around these parts. Hit 40C today with humidity of 56%. That is some serious swamp ass weather. I was up at 5, did a bit of work for work, then hustled to get some property watering and clean up done before swamp ass started which is about 9am.

[Edmond]

I seem to get no spare time and I have no idea how to relax any more. Yet I achieve nothing many days.

Fok that for a game of gardeners.


If yer looking for a self-righteous life coach, you're certainly talking to the right Lulu.

Why even go back to your Mendarosa most days.

3 days a week drive the kid to school.

Then to the gym for 2 hours. Great way of meeting people. Shower, eat.

Go to a 2 hour Thai lesson. Great for meeting people.

Go for a 2 hour 4 hands warm oil massage. Extra kneading on the undercarriage.

Cafe, and time to pick the kid up and head back to Mendarosa nice and relaxed.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays sor'id guv'na.


Pay some layby to come groom the gang and trim the fire ant nests.

[Mendip]

^ You seem to assume at least 6 hours spare time per day, plus school run times.

It's a different world, to be honest...

Get a job, try my life for one week.

[Edmond]

I was under the impression you do 6 weeks offshore, then have 6 weeks (or however long) off.


I've been wrong before.

[Stumpy]

It's a different world, to be honest...

Owning a property with land that requires upkeep along with various pets can easily burn days fast. Toss children into the mix, days evaporate.

I understand your POV Mendy.

[Looper]

I reckon Looper will knock a few out over that pic

I may be the forum's foremost foot fetishist but I will pass on any foot sporting a mohican comb-over

[Mendip]

^ Well, I don't know whether to be relieved or insulted?

[helge]

Well, I don't know whether to be relieved or insulted?

You should put your foot down now !

Or the bastards will continue their bullying.

Next will be videos like this:




Enough is enough

[Loy Toy]

Speaking of a day in the life. Geeezzuuus it is still hot around these parts. Hit 40C today with humidity of 56%. That is some serious swamp ass weather. I was up at 5, did a bit of work for work, then hustled to get some property watering and clean up done before swamp ass started which is about 9am.

I'm doing some brick laying, concreting and other physical stuff at the moment and only work at night because of the heat during daylight hours. I have set up some good artificial solar panel lighting which allows me to work at night.

We are also having an awning put up and even the Thais can't handle the heat.

[malmomike77]

^ Are you rebuilding Patters?

[Loy Toy]

^ At present finishing off the front coffee shop which has evolved from a multi-room store into quite a large shop with three entrances, one from the Mooban, one main entrance from the road frontage and one from the attached house. I could fit two 9ft pool tables in the room which gives you some idea on the size.

When this is finished I can finish off the main bar area and then recommence work on the main house.

No rest for the wicked mate.

[malmomike77]

^ build it and they will come

[Loy Toy]

If they come great. If they don't it wouldn't bother me.

My main issue is trying to finish off most of the work on my own.

[Mendip]

I was just putting the finishing touches together for dinner tonight when all hell broke out in the garden and Yogi started doing his most urgent snake bark ever. I rushed outside to investigate.



What he picture doesn't show is a pack of dogs surrounding the snake, all nervously trying to get a bite in.

I knew immediately that this is a white-lipped pit viper. One put my daughter into hospital a few years ago. The dogs sensed it was a bad one and kept their distance, although they didn't break their cordon around it.



It was a feisty thing and very ready to strike. I would estimate it at a little under a metre long. I sent the daughter down to the pond to get the snake tongs while I kept watch and kept the dogs away. By and large the dogs are good and stay away once I warn them off, although if I had left the scene Yogi at least would have attacked, at great risk to himself.

With tongs in hand I made short work of the capture. These vipers are slow and rely on camouflage rather than speed.



I used to take these to Korat zoo where several in the white-lipped pit viper display came from our garden. I just have no time to do that at the moment so I put it over the garden wall.

It's a high wall!

[Topper]

That last pic is pretty good!

[DrWilly]

Great pics. Will the snake be unable to cross back over or under the wall?

[Mendip]

It won't be able to get under or climb over the wall but the problem is overhanging trees which I think a lot of snakes drop in from. I try to keep them trimmed back but that's impossible with some of the big trees that surround us.

Or it could come round and use the gate.

[Edmond]

Or it could come round and use the gate.

We once had a sick hamster that needed to be youth-in-ized. Kid arrived home just at the time so everything was hidden away.

Cue ensuing drama about the lost hamster that escaped from their cage, and during the frantic search for Tiddle-Fluff us going out to the security gate at the front of the private village, asking the security guards if they saw Tiddle-Fluff the hamster going through the gated entrance/exit, they replied that they hadn't, so it was decided that the search area could be focused on inside our side of the gate.


RIP Tiddle-Fluff.

[DrWilly]

Cue ensuing drama about the lost hamster that escaped from their cage

Why did you lie to your child?

Presuming the story is true, of course.

[Loy Toy]

I have been clearing some land at the front of our shop for the purpose of car parking and working mainly through the night as the days are so hot.

After 3 days the missus decides what I am doing is worthwhile and she offers to help so out she comes with this hand held blade and starts wailing away.

On the third swipe she screams and exists stage left.

I check out what has happened and there is a metre long rat snake so I scoop it back into the klong.

I had not seen anything over 3 days work and she lasted about 10 seconds.

[malmomike77]

I have been clearing some land at the front of our shop for the purpose of car parking

couldn't you just hire a digger for 1/2 day, c 3K thb?

[Edmond]

Why did you lie to your child?

Well, there were two scenarios for the kid to believe.

1. The hamster passes away in their home, and we give her a respectful send off to the great hamster wheel in the sky.

2. Papaa kills Tiddle-Fluff because Tiddle-Fluff is in her old age and has a giant facial tumor that has shut off one eye, makes her barely able to move or eat, and is in obvious pain every moment of her elderly life.


I chose the easier version of leading the kid to believe 1. When things became a bit skewered.

Not the hamster, of course, she was drowned in luke warm water, not skewered and eaten. We're not in Isaan.

[Loy Toy]

I have had this land cleared on numerous ocassions by hired Thai's and they never take out the weed roots. I dig down and remove the whole weed basically doing the job right and apart from a bit of sweat it didn't cost me a baht.